This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. creates an "announcement" content type and provides both node views and block lists.

This is an adaptation of the sample module writing article from IBM.

An announcement has the following fields:

Title

Self-explanatory.

Publication date

The first date the announcement will be displayed.

Exiration date

The last date the announcement will be displayed.

Abstract

An abbreviated description of the announcement. This will be shown in the block.

Body

The full text of the announcement.

Installation

Standard moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. installation applies. The moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. does have an uninstall function.

Settings

Maximum number of block announcements

The maximum number of announcements that will show in a block.

Display additional announcement classification

I have no idea; I haven't tried this yet.

Default duration of announcement

When creating a new announcement, the start date will default to today and the ending date will default to today plus this setting's value.

Permissions

create announcement

Allows a user to create a new announcment

edit announcement

Allows a user to edit any announcment. Note: "edit own" is by default.

Menu Entries / URIs

There is one menu entry for "Announcements." This view of the announcements shows only the abstract and dates for the announcements.

If one appends 'view' to the URI (i.e. http://www.example.com/announcements/view), you will get a full node view.

Blocks

Announcements: Recent

Shows recent, active announcements.

Announcements: In xxx vocabulary

Shows the terms for the xxx vocabulary, which has been assigned to the 'announcements' content type. There may be more than one vocabulary show, depending on your configuraton. Note: if there are no vocabularies assigned, then this block will not be shown.

Styling and Themes

The moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. comes with a starter set of CSSCascading Style Sheet - a hierarchical means of specifying how to format HTML elements on the page entries. View the code or use Firebug to discover more styling options.

theme_announcements_compact

Formats the main, compact view.

theme_announcements

Formats the full node view.

theme_announcements_block_list

Formats an entry for the "Recent" block.

theme_announcements_dates

Formats the dates for the announcement.

theme_announcements_abstract

Formats the abstract.